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Originally Posted by Manx
Prisons should be self-sustaining environments which empasize rehabilitation. Void of the death penalty, with the addition of voluntary euthanasia (post-psyche sessions).
Self-sustaining would mean manual labor, which, as long as it meets acceptable safety standards, is perfectly appropriate. The ultimate goal would be a prison system that pays for itself.
The purpose of prison should be to rehabilitate - not purely infantile punishment. The goal is to address psychological issues that result in criminal activity to provide a mechanism for self-realization of acceptable behavior within society.
The death penalty is ineffective at prevention and prone to the inherent possibility of murder of the inappropriately convicted. And there is no reparation for the murder of an innocent by the gov't.
Euthanasia should be a viable alternative to those who may have life sentences with no parole but do not wish to work the rest of their lives to support their lives while in prison.
There would probably be a number of other things I would suggest, such as the constant rotation of guards to inhibit guard-convict relationships (which results in the corruption of guards). Etc.
And this is all a dream.
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I don't know how prevelant it was nationwide or even statewide, but growing up in Mansfield Ohio where we had the Ohio State Reformatory (the prison used for Shawshank Redemption among other films), we learned as kids that it was up until the '60's I believe a selfsustaining prison.
They had a farm, complete with apple orchards and would either use the food or sell the leftovers to the poorer neighborhoods. They also had these men develop skills (granted not used today) such as leatherworking, tailoring, and so on and would make wallets and clothing again sold to poorer neighborhoods in the Mansfield area.
Basically, for a long time the Mansfield, Ohio area and the Ohio State Reformatory were somewhat helpful to each other, in fact there were some Mansfield entreprenuers that actually had gotten their start in OSR. I think this could and should happen again.